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Four Poems by Nicholas YB Wong

Nicholas YB Wong

Nicholas YB Wong received his MFA at the City University of Hong Kong and is the author of Cities of Sameness. He is a finalist of New Letters Poetry Award and a semi-finalist of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. He is on the editorial board of Drunken Boat and Mead: Magazine of Literature and Libations. Corgis are his favorite human breed.

as marzipan. My bending is a sorry sight, teeming with shortage of esteem. Who cares —

the soap dispenser only speaksto the wall. When his arms hold me

from behind, I know what hewants, the pasteurized kind.

Five Steps on Expository Writing: Origin of Hydrophilia

By the pool three toy ducks drool, 1. Collect the most importantyellow plastic of S / M / L. I tell him love information.

has no size if we're all sizes, all ducks & he says true 2. Explain unusual wordslove ungloves the body if humidity is 100%. or terms.

I dive in, my legs flutter kick, my arms mechanic 3. Use enough details tolike windmills. I think of the gender of thoroughly inform.pool jets, view the fisheye view of other swimmers' butts& the world vividly curvy up there

as if it's built by Gaudi. I fill a bucket 4. Teach something new.with water & empty it by the rainshower drain just to prove what I can do besidesbeing the brackets in his habits.

If next morning we wake up with a breath bad 5. Make predictions.enough & he thinks of pillows instead of me,I'll hide the towels & hairdryer. His legswill leak like conduits & the spacethey induce when bent in bed, a dry lagoon.